Media violence and aggression : science and ideology

Counters the claim that media violence leads to widespread social aggression. This title argues that there are, indeed, media effects that derive from media violence, pornography, and other kinds of visual, cyberspace, and print based messages.再读一些...

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1. Setting the Stage 2. A Short History of the Concept of Effects 3. The Epistemology of Media Effects 4 The Social Scientific "Theory" That Never Quite Fit 5. Is it Just Science? 6. The World According to Causationists 7. The Biggest Cultural Variable of All: The Child 8. The Role of Psychopathology in the Media 9. The Attempt to Make an Idology a Science 10. To Legislate or Not to Legislate Against Media Violence

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Tom Grimes, James A. Anderson, Lori Bergen.

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"The authors take strong issue with the notion of convergence as it concerns media violence research and painstakingly examine the major pitfalls in extrapolating results from experimental settings to real world behavior...they also lay out a strong case for why any truly meaningful social policy cannot be derived from the extant literature on media and violence." -JOURNAL OF MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY "The authors of Media Violence and Aggression: Science and Ideology, Tom Grimes, James A. Anderson, and Lori Bergen, are determined to leave no stone unturned, no perspectives unexplored, no names left unnamed of those in the field with whom, on both empirical and theoretical grounds, they strenuously disagree. It is an engaging book that needed to be and is up close and personal. In so doing, they have produced what may be the most comprehensive critique and rebuttal to date of the omnipresent media-violence and aggression argument." -JOURNAL OF MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY -- Stuart Fischoff, Ph.D. "Media Violence and Aggression is a thoughtful and sophisticated work that dismantles the core assumptions of the media violence hypothesis piece by piece...This book makes several core contributions to the discussion on media violence effects above those seen in other critical works." -- Christopher J. Ferguson "This notable book analyzes the epistemology of the theories, the methodology of the research findings, and the construction of concepts of childhood vulnerability. The authors also examine in detail the ontological problem of causation, tear apart empirical research into the pathology of violence, and dissect the effort to force science to fit ideology. Indeed, it should be read and agonized over by all scholars in the children and violence arena." -- Susan Tyler Eastman Communication Booknotes再读一些...